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Steve Badanes and Linda Beaumont married at end of process that can tear couples apart--designing and building of a house; they recall that process; house is on Whidbey Island, Washington; photos (M)
Italian police arrest Sergio Cragnotti, former chairman of bankrupt canned-food producer Cirio, in latest effort to fight financial fraud; Cragnotti has been under investigation for about year; Cragnotti is suspected of fraudulent bankruptcy tied to collapse of Cirio, which is in liquidation and has defaulted on 1.1 billion euros ($1.4 billion) in outstanding bonds; Cragnotti has said company's collapse is not related to fraud; police also arrest Cragnotti's son Andrea and son-in-law Filippo Fucile, who is director of unit; notify Cragnotti's daughter Elisabetta, who is married to Fucile, that she is under investigation; also place Paolo Micolini, former board member of Cirio unit, under house arrest; Ettore Quadrani, another former director, is notified that he is under investigation; Reuters says 25 bankers are named in probe; photo (M)
Justice Dept demands that at least six hospitals in New York City, Philadelphia and elsewhere turn over hundreds of patient medical records to determine whether procedure that opponents call partial-birth abortion was in fact medically necessary; says it needs records to defend new law that prohibits procedure, known medically as intact dilation and extraction; new law is being challenged in suit by doctors at hospitals nationwide; hospital administrators are balking at Justice Dept request, saying it would violate privacy rights of their patients; standoff has resulted in clashing interpretations from federal judges in recent days about whether Justice Dept has right to see files; it is unclear exactly how many patients would be affected by subpoenas--if they are enforced; advocates for abortion rights say they are particularly troubled by subpoenas because of Atty Gen John Ashcroft's history as outspoken opponent of abortion in his days in Senate (M)
New Orleans Hornets defeat New York Knicks, 106-98; photo (M)
West Virginia University defeats St John's University, 86-52; photo (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of February 11, 2004, covering February 12, 2004.
Twista
OutKast
Sheryl Crow
Evanescence
Ruben Studdard
2004The city of San Francisco begins issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples in response to a directive from Mayor Gavin Newsom.[†]
San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is a commercial, financial, and cultural center of Northern California. With a population of 827,526 residents as of 2024, San Francisco is the fourth-most populous city in the U.S. state of California and the 17th-most populous in the United States. San Francisco has a land area of 46.9 square miles at the upper end of the San Francisco Peninsula and is the fifth-most densely populated U.S. county. Among U.S. cities proper with over 250,000 residents, San Francisco is ranked first by per capita income and sixth by aggregate income as of 2023. San Francisco anchors the 13th-most populous metropolitan statistical area in the U.S., with almost 4.6 million residents in 2023. The larger San Jose–San Francisco–Oakland combined statistical area, the fifth-largest urban region in the U.S., had a 2023 estimated population of over nine million.
In 2004, the world population was approximately 6,503,377,772 people[†]